Liz, my daughter has glioblastoma and I follow your blog. This video was so moving to me because it brought back so many memories and feelings of when she was diagnosed and she too had 2 brain surgeries within a 3 week period of time. She is now doing very well, after being diagnosed in Decemeber of 2010. She lives with it everyday and goes thru mri every 8 weeks to see if it has come back. So far so good! We live thru hell every 8 weeks just worried what the mri will show. She is blessed like you to be able to go to work everyday and in most all ways can live a normal life….whatever normal is for a person who has brain cancer. Thank you for your blog.

It’s just incredible how the internet can bring us together. Like you, I stared reaching people through blogging, and it’s lead to such needed connections. Congratulations on your TED talk. Very moving talk! ~Catherine

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This video means so much to me. And you included one of comments in your presentation. :) I recently had another clean MRI and I am coming up on my 2 year anniversary since my surgery. Thanks again for all that you do.

Hi Liz, huge congratulations on such an inspiring and entertaining talk. You managed to articulate so well the ups and downs (mostly downs) of living with this weird disease. I’m 4 years post dx – grade 3 anaplastic astrocytoma – and living life to the full, running a lot, working, travelling and making plans for a new business. I’ve just turned 40 and thank my lucky stars everyday that I can live a “normal” life. Keep up the good work Liz – I love your blog and your positive attitude.

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David,

Great job. Good luck on your business plans.
I have the same; grade 2-3 A.A., 43 years old. Also living life big. Plenty of exercise, traveling a lot with my family, but no work for two months! (Teacher and summer break starts in a week).

Cheers

jimgm20

Great job Liz. I felt like I needed a support after my surgery and went to a meeting specifically for Brain Cancer fighters. It was like a wake. No positive energy. I left and never looked back. I don’t check in on this blog enough though. I don’t even update my own blog enough. I am going to do both more often.